Training/Seminars

As the pressure equipment safety authority, ABSA is committed to helping individuals
and industry meet their training needs in pressure equipment safety. Our seminars
have grown from one or two a few years ago to a total of nine. We now offer seminars
in Edmonton, Calgary, Fort McMurray and Medicine Hat and are currently looking at
other areas within Alberta to deliver our seminars.The seminars that are currently
presented by ABSA are:

This seminar is intended to provide an overview of the Alberta legislation and the
related codes and standards governing pressure equipment safety. The seminar addresses
the full life-cycle of pressure equipment including engineering, fabrication, installation,
in-service integrity management (operation, maintenance and reliability) and repair
and alteration.

This seminar presents the requirements of the Safety Codes Act, Regulations
and the applicable ASME codes with respect to pressure piping systems and provides
awareness and guidance for the effective implementation of a Quality Management System
to promote the construction of safe piping systems.

Our design survey team has developed a seminar that will address the design registration
requirements for all types of pressure equipment. The course will use presentations,
examples and workshops to explain the design submission requirements.

Nearly half of all design registration applications received by ABSA are sent back
because they lack the proper documentation. This online course takes learners step-by-step
through the process of compiling a complete registration package for the design registration
of pressure equipment. The AB-31 form is examined in depth and the required accompanying
detail and documents are listed clearly in order to help submitters prepare complete
registration packages, eliminating the hassles, delays, and costs of resubmission.

Note: This seminar is
required to be taken first, prior to taking the other online design registration
courses.

This online course helps learners to determine which pressure equipment is required
to be registered in Alberta and which documents are required to be included in the
design registration package for boilers and pressure vessels.

In the Pressure Equipment Safety Regulation for Alberta, Canada, it states that pressure
piping designs are to be registered in Alberta for the pressure piping to be used
in Alberta. This course helps the learners to determine which pressure piping system
requires registration and which documents are required to be included in the design
registration. The knowledge gained from this course will assist the submitter in getting
the design registered successfully on the first attempt.

This online ABSA Pressure Piping Design Registration course covers:

Identifies what pressure piping systems require registration

Identifies what pressure piping designs are exempt from design
registration

Required Pressure Piping Design Registration Documentation

Additional requirements when it is proposed to use a piping test
procedure other than hydrostatic

The Alberta Pressure Equipment Safety Regulation (PESR) requires designs for pressure
fittings that will be used in Alberta to be registered in Alberta. This course covers
which pressure fittings require registration and which documents are required to be
included in the design registration package. Knowledge gained from this course will
assist in successfully registering a pressure fittings design the first time.

The Alberta Pressure Equipment Safety Regulation (PESR) requires designs for alterations
of pressure equipment that will be used in Alberta to be registered in Alberta. The
PESR also requires that some repairs to pressure equipment be submitted to ABSA for
acceptance prior to commencement of the repair. This course covers which repairs and
alterations require registration and which documents are required to be included in
the design registration package. Knowledge gained from this course will assist in
successfully registering a repair or alteration design the first time.

This online ABSA Repair and Alteration course covers:

What repairs and alterations are

Repair and alteration design registration requirements

Completion of the AB-31

Required documentation including a condition report, a detailed
description of the repair or alteration, drawings of the repair or alteration and
a damage report

The Repair and Alteration Seminar will assist all those who have an interest in repairing
or altering boilers and pressure vessels. This seminar will assist with the understanding
of the Safety Codes Act and its regulations as related to repairs and alterations.
This seminar will also review in detail the requirements document, AB-513, and provide
you with the elements required in order to develop a repair or alteration plan. This
seminar will also address the requirements for the submission to design survey.

You will learn detailed information on the intent of the power engineers regulations.
Chief Power Engineers and Power Engineering Training providers will gain insight on
what a Safety Officer is looking for when inspecting or auditing your plant. They
will gain more knowledge on the applicable codes and standards that are under the
legislation. They will develop better training programs in assisting operators and
trainees in the performance of their work.

This seminar presents an overview of requirements for the full life cycle of pressure
equipment outlining the following topics:

About ABSA

Legislation

Design and Design Registration

Construction

In-service Operation and Integrity Assessment

Repair and Alteration

Incident Reporting

This seminar would not cover the scope of the codes and standards but would be highly
beneficial for those who wish to have a high level understanding of pressure equipment
safety requirements under Alberta legislation.

This seminar will present an introduction to ABSA and the other organizations involved
in the regulation of pressure equipment safety in
Alberta
, with reference to the applicable Act and regulations. The requirements of the adopted
codes, standards and bodies of rules will be discussed.

Emphasis will be on the design registration requirements for pressure equipment of
the type that the company is involved with (e.g. pressure piping, boilers, pressure
vessels, repairs) and areas where problems occur. Time will be spent reviewing the
various documents that must be submitted for design registration and on completion
of the piping job.

Where pressure piping design and installation are concerned, overpressure protection
requirements in both power plants and pressure plants will be addressed, as will pressure
testing requirements. Reference will be made to the inspections that ABSA is mandated
to perform during the construction of a plant or other pressure equipment and that
a construction project must allow for.

ABSA is prepared to deliver customized versions of this seminar to engineering and
EPC companies upon request. Depending on the response from engineering and EPC companies,
this seminar may be scheduled as a public seminar in the future.

ABSA may also present private (in-house) sessions of our seminars upon request*. In-house
seminars reduce the cost of sending multiple employees to one of our public locations
for a seminar.We offer private sessions of our standard seminars as well as customized
training seminars..

We have presented standard and customized seminars across Canada and internationally
and we will continue to attempt to offer customized training in areas identified by
stakeholders. In the future we will conduct industry training surveys and look forward
to hearing of any training needs that industry members may have.

*Please note that due to the increased demand for our private seminars, seminars
will be scheduled upon the availability of our instructors.